1990-1995
Study of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ilmenau, degree Dipl.-Ing.
1994
Stay at the University of Nottingham, ERASMUS program
1996-1999
PhD student at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Space Sensor Technology, degree Dr.-Ing
1999-2000
PostDoc research stay at the University of Zurich, department of Geography
Since 1996
Scientific participation in the projects WAOSS, WAAC, ADS40, Panoramic Camera, Eye in the sky, WALES, FireBird, IPS, PLATO
2000-2003
Scientific Researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Space Sensor Technology and Planetary Exploration
Since 2002
Project Manager for several research projects
2003
Head of the Theory and Signal Processing Group
Since 2004
Head of the Department Information Processing of Optical Systems
Coordinator of Traffic Projects at OS
2004-2010
Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen: "Fundamentals of digital Image Processing"
Since 2010
Member of Faculty Helmholtz Research School for Security Technologies
2011
Research stay at the University of Auckland
2011-2013
Lecture at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin "Computer Vision"
2013-2015
DLR Project manager for HP3 for NASA’s insight mission to Mars
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